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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

Discovered a new incredibly based medieval person

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 16m

It'd be a pizzeria in Kėdainiai or something

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 24m

"We interviewed one local resident about what they think of Russia's threats to Lithuanian sovereignty. They asked, 'who is that?'"

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 35m

I would like more international journalists for TV to position themselves in genuinely unusual places when they're reporting from a foreign city. Less "standing in front of the Seimas" and more "sitting on the footsteps of the Jammi Kebabai in Pašilaičiai"

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1h

For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here

desk-russie.eu/2024/09/08/n...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 44m

Literally what

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 44m

I'm sorry?

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1h

A manager at Historic Environment Scotland was sanctioned after allegedly 'twerking' in front of Hollywood actor Martin Compston, according to reports

Scottish heritage boss sanctioned for 'twerking' in front of Martin Compston

www.thenational.scot

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

Most stances people hold are not actually driven by a dispassionate search for the authentic truth, but by their subconscious playing havoc on their brain, and this is normal, but we should always be aware what that havoc is.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

Not why you believe it, you may well have very good reasons to. But why do you /want/ to. What is the emotive reality behind the facade of facts

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of people would do well to ask themselves about their own political, social and historical beliefs "but why do I /want/ to believe this"

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

We are watching it already bud

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

Why do you feel the need to believe you were born in Babylon? What do you get out of it, emotionally?

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

And dont tell me that they don't on some perverse level actively want it. If you have a relationship this loose with the historical truth it is because you have some kind of emotional prior that pushes you towards conclusions as tendentious as "the US caused Nazism."

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11h

I don't really understand why some Americans feel the /need/ to claim the status of Most Demonic Country. Personally if it were me I would simply not long for such a title.

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 11h

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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By quote-posting:
Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12h

Objectively true

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

Fair play to this Latvian witch, who attempted to use magic in 1699 to move plague specifically to Russia.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

You might ask if they were trying to convert them actively, at least, after which they would be entitled to full legal rights.

Haha.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

The status of the indigenes in the German-ruled Baltic at that time was legally that of something like a sentient plant, in that they could be legally removed from the land at any time if the overlord wished on account of them being only semi-Christian and therefore unentitled to full protection

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

Also worth noting that they were genuinely truly, horrifically oppressed at that point for like 200 years so literally any change in the status quo probably seemed like it at least could have been good.

The more you know!

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

They were peasants, they couldn't read.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

Meme where Russia shoots itself and asks why [insert a list of literally every country under the sun, separated by commas] would do this.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

Russia's worst enemy is Russia. Always has been.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

This literally dates back to Ivan the Terrible btw. Allegedly, according to some sources, the Latvians, Livonians and Estonians were initially /delighted/ when he invaded Livonia because they thought the end of the German yoke was nigh. Then they started killing fucking everybody, for no reason.

Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 13h

The eternal struggle of "If only Russia could be normal"

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

It's fun because in the long term they only politically cripple themselves with all this stuff but in the short term a hell of a lot of good people die for no reason

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

Likely the entire nonaligned movement does tbh

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h

Like I think in that universe the Soviets straight up win the cold war!

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